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Zell Miller challenges Chris Matthews to duel

Zell Miller. Wow. Where did the Republicans find this guy? When I heard that a Democrat was going to be speaking tonight, I was curious about what I was going to hear. But never did I expect anything like the Zell Miller speech.

After the speech, the talking heads on MSNBC have been criticizing the speech for being too hard, too tough. I don’t think that they get it. It wasn’t Republican Dick Cheney attacking John Kerry, it was a fellow Democrat doing it.

People who weren’t watching MSNBC tonight actually missed the very best part of the Zell Miller story, his on the air argument with Chris Matthews. Maybe you read the headline and you think I made it up. Oh no, I didn’t, Zell Miller really said that he wished that he could have a duel with Chris Matthews.

Chris Matthews was totally out of line in the manner that he asked Zell Miller about his spitballs comment. Obviously it was a metaphor, as Zell said, Chris Matthews asked the question like Zell Miller meant it literally.

And while I was typing this up, I heard Chris Matthews remark that blogs will be talking about his tiff with Zell. Yep, he predicted that one correctly.

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Looks like I'm right about Zell Miller's speech and the talking heads were wrong. Now the guy at MSNBC is talking to a group of "swing voters" and they nearly all liked his speech. Zell Miller may have just won the South for W.

posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004